Automatic fishing device.



No. 657,5l8. Patented Sept. ll, I900.

AUTOMATIC FISHING DEVICE.

(Applicatiox; filed Oct. 10, 1899.)

(No Model.)

NKTED STATES PATENT. OFFICE;

GEORGE COOK, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

AUTOMATIC FISHING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,518, datedSeptember 11-, 1900. Application filed October 10, 1899. serial No.733,168. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE COOK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State ofKentucky, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in AutomaticFishing Devices; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in automatic fishing-reels,and moreparticularly to that class of which Letters Patent No. 625,829, datedMay 30, 1899, may be taken as the type, and the object is to simplifyand improve the construction and increase the efficiency of the device.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, andarrangement of the several elements of the device, as will behereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in theclaim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate thesame parts of the device.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved fishing-reel as it appearsin use on a fishing-rod. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal view through thecenter of the pole. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same.

1 denotes a section of tubing which is inserted between the handle andthe contiguous joint of the pole, and it is provided with a longitudinalguide-slot 2 to receive the screws 3 3, which connect the plunger 4 withthe base-piece 5 of the casing 6, and 7 denotes a staple fixed in theend of the plunger from which a helical spring 8 extends to a transversepin 9, fixed in the tube 1.

1O denotes a clamp-bracket adj ustably secured to the tube 1, and in itsupper end is fulcrumed a trigger 12, the curved shorter arm of which isadapted to engage the casing-post 13, and the longer arm is providedwith the notches 14 14 to receive the fishing-line 28.

15 denotes a continuous-ringing bell which is adjustably clamped to thetube 1, and its spring-actuated hammer is held in check normally by apush-pin 16, which projects into the path of an arm 18, fixed upon atransverse shaft 18, seated in the walls of the cas ing v6 ashortdistance above the rear end of said casing 6. Thearm18extendsrearwardlyfrom the rear end of the casing 6, so that when the helical spring 8-ispermitted to act upon the casing after the lever 12 has been disengagedfrom the casing-post 13 the easing will be drawn rearwardly by theretracting-spring 8, thereby bringing the arm 18 in contact with thepush-pin 16, and thereby set the bell 15 to ringing. As soon as theattendant hears the alarm, which signifies to him that a fish has beenbooked, he approaches the automatic device, if he be absent from thesame, and loosens or frees the retaining-pawl 29 from the teeth of thegear-wheel 22, when the coil-spring 22 will unwind and operate the reel27 to wind the fish-line thereon, thus bringing the hooked fish to hand.

19 denotes the spring-actuated shaft journaled in the parallel arms 2020, fixed to the V rock-shaft 21, and 22 denotes a gear-wheel fixed onthe shaft 19 and adapted to be thrown into and out of gear with thepinion 23, fixed on the counter-shaft 24, journaled in the easing, andsaid counter shaft also carries a gear-wheel 25, which meshes with apinion 26, fixed on the reel-shaft 26, also jonrnaled in the casing, andon which the reel 27 is fixed. The counter-shaft 24 is squared at oneend to receive the crank-handle 24, by means of which the reel can bemanipulated by hand when desired to wind up the spring 22*, 28 denotesthe fishing-line wound on the reel 27, and 29 denotes a pawl looselymounted on a shaft 30, which connects the outer ends of the arms 20 20and is adapted to engage and release the gear-wheel 22, the releasetaking place when said pawl 29 is 0 pressed out of engagement therewithby hand. The spring-controlled gear-wheel 22 when released fromengagement with the pawl 29 acts through the described train of gearingwhich it drives to wind the fishing- 5 line upon the reel 27 byuncoiling from its shaft, and must be rewound by means of thecrank-handle 24 and set by placing the pawl 29' in engagement with thegear wheel 22 when the line has been again cast.

The accompanying drawings show my invention in the best form now knownto me, but many changes in the details might be made within the skill ofa good mechanic without depairtirrg f120m the-spirit; of myg ini-tvention as set forthin the ciai'm at the-endof this specification.

Having thus fully described my invention;- What I claim as new anduseful, and desire to secure by LettersyPatent of; the United 'States,is-

In an automatic fishing-ree1, the combina-. tion. with the slotted tubeand, the s'ptittg-t actuated plunger incased thereby, of theclamp-bracket secured to said slotted tube;

I the notched leve-r lfifulc-rwmediu saidyelamps bracket near theforwardehd of vthe slot. in said tube; the continuous-alarm bell 15provided with the push-pin 16, and the casing 6 fixed'to saidspring-actuated plunger-and hav-. 1

ing sliding engagement with the tube; the

l and adapted te engageand" release saidpushpin 16; the reel-shaft andreel; the counter- "shaft; the sp'ring actuated shaft 19; the gearwheel22 each supported within the casing in :pperative engfigment, and meanssubstan- "tial'iy as describ I d for throwing said gearing into and outof ear with the reel-shaft, subified. r

.In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing wit- GEORGE COOK.

Witnesses:

' JAS. A. MALONE,

J. E. THOMPSON.

